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Canada

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ISO: CAN Region: North America

32% circumcision prevalence

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PrevalenceComplete

Categorical profileMissing

Circumcision by intentMissing

Deep write-upsNot written yet

Native perspectiveExploratory

Sources · Citations

Verifications · Independent

Structured claims · Evidence-based

Jun 24, 2026

Last updated · partial

Required items still missing: P1-P4, H1, S1/S2. This file is a work in progress.

Research claims

Short, testable claims backed by evidence and categorised for clarity.

No structured research claims have been added for Canada yet.

Legal status

Unregulated

No restricting law; no longer publicly funded in most provinces.

Canada has no law restricting non-therapeutic infant circumcision. Most provinces removed it from public health-insurance coverage decades ago, and the Canadian Paediatric Society does not recommend it routinely.

Medical & HIV context

0.2%

Adult HIV prevalence

National (2022) · Adults 15–49

Benchmarks are international context — not a local complication rate.

Incident registry

No verified incidents are currently recorded for Canada.

This absence should not be read as proof that harm does not occur — only that no verified, sourced case has been documented in this database yet.